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In this the Year of the Rabbit, why not bring back this post I made in 2019 that went viral on all platforms about the Duality of Bun

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Remembering death with Aurora, among moths and children's books #BandsYouNeedToKnow

Interview by Oscar Adame for Warp Magazine (June 4th, 2019), translated by fromthespaceamundo. Photo: David Barajas.

Birthplace: Stavanger, Norway Debut year: 2012 Members: Aurora Aksnes

«The image that illustrates my first studio album is a moth. They are the sisters of the butterflies, they are brown, they do not have any hair and nobody likes them; that is why I love them and I collect them when I find them dead. I am fascinated by them because they fly at night, always looking for a place near the light. It is weird because they could do it during the day and not look for anything.

I am the moth of my cover, my wings say that I am close to death, but in reality I am finishing a process of change. I manage to open them and instead of looking for light, like any other moth, I go out in search of silence, a quiet place, a place away from noise and people. I realize that I could go anywhere and I would love it.

I end up searching in nature, in a freshwater lake. It’s been a long time since I saw any lake. There I pretend that I am walking on the water, dancing on it, it seems that I am doing it, but actually I am flying. That’s when a fish catches me, I become their food and I become a part of it.

Now I see the world with its eyes and the lake is the opposite of what it looked like when I was a moth. At that moment I saw it, I knew that I would die if I entered it. Now that I am a fish, I see outside of the lake and I know that I will die if I go out. I love being able to breathe underwater. I love the sea. I love the ocean. It’s like flying. I love swimming. I love being a fish. I am a fish with one eye.»

Nordic tales

This is a story we wrote together with Aurora, a young singer-songwriter born in the cold, but lovely area of ​​Scandinavia. A place that is famous for its dreamy landscapes full of nature, also known for the importance of its stories with violent mythologies and several of the most influential children’s stories in history.

The culture from which she comes is well known and influential across the world. Both its books and its music have the particularity of connecting with the world in the deepest of ways, resembling the fantastic elements that marked the childhood of each one of us, when we learned the most important truth in the world: one day we are all going to die. This is why Aurora has been acknowledged during recent years as the most important pop singer from the region.

It’s very clear when she holds my edition of Northern Lights by Phillip Pulman, dancing with it because of how much she enjoyed reading it. She told me that «children’s books are the best, they always tell the most uncomfortable truths and make them look very innocent.»

Seeing her carefully reveals the reasons why her followers call themselves warriors and take all her actions as if they were great life teachings, made by such a curious being, but cultured as an elf. Comparisons like that in the deep worlds of the Internet do not stop, let alone when she is present. She is an educated girl who shows a deep interest in nature and talks a lot about the truth behind being a human.

«I think we are always in a middle point of our lives, just as if we were wrapped inside a cocoon. We are ready to escape from it and do new things in our life, but I think life has many steps», she declares. «[Life] is a journey about which we know nothing. We do not know what will happen when we die, I think what seems like the last step, may not be the final stage», just like when she was eaten by a fish in the lake.

The perfect song

With two studio EPs and a full-length album, being only 22 years old, she has risen herself as one of the most followed artists on social media and one of the most listened on Spotify. Her songs reached one hundred million streams and last week she made a sold-out concert at El Plaza Condesa in Mexico City, a show full of people who seek within her music the intimacy that comes with remembering one’s mortality, a teaching that is always touched by the best books for children.

«My music is always about death, because I find it an extremely liberating and interesting subject to write. The album speaks about it from different points of view, from life and from death», she said in regards to All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend (2016), her first studio album on which she combines elements of art pop and electro pop that deliver stories full of that fragility and innocence that comes from being in contact with our own childhood.

She became famous in mid-2015, when her first EP Running with the Wolves (2015) was taken over the Internet and went viral a few months later, drawing comparisons with artists like Björk and Kate Bush. However, she started making music much earlier, when she was only «6 years old and for very arrogant reasons, because I did not think there was a perfect song yet and I thought maybe I should make it myself.»

Aurora took inspiration from the music she heard as a child: «I loved classical music like Beethoven and a Norwegian composer named Edvard Grieg, I loved many composers, instrumental music used to calm me down, but they had a lot of complexity despite having a small heart», the singer-songwriter described. «I did not think they were emotional enough», she added.

«I started writing music on the piano; when I was six I started to make my own melodies, some were quite emotional. At the age of nine I started adding lyrics to them and that’s when I realized that I loved making music», she said with her arms crossed holding an Adventure Time bag. «It felt like something very natural, like sleeping. Like being in a dream, when I was actually awake.»

Musical appropriation

According to what was told to us, her hit «Runaway» was the first song she composed when was 12 years old. «I think I did not know what it was about when I made it, but something happened when I turned 15 that made me realize what it was about. It’s very strange, something very beautiful, it’s like I knew something before it happened», she said about the song.

«Sometimes I write very different songs. Each song is different. They always have a different reason, I do them when I feel creative and I want to walk in the dark, looking for words and sounds», she said regarding her composition process. «Sometimes I feel that I know what my system wants to write and sometimes I have to write about feelings for which humans suffer, in order to understand them.»

In her catalog there are many songs that can bring tears to their listeners that feel understood through her music. There are many reasons why this happens, but they all start with her pencil and they all happen for different reasons. This does not mean that she does not have her own songs that inspire her and accompany her in moments of solitude, one of the reasons why she achieved international fame is that she makes very good covers, among which we find her cover of «Half the World Away» by Oasis and «Life On Mars» by David Bowie, both British pieces that radiate a sense of claustrophobia from the loss of a love because of the distance and the destruction of an entire planet.

The answer to how she treated these songs and made them seem completely of hers is «much simpler than you think», she told me. «Each song becomes something of mine when I sing it with my own voice. I do not do anything special, but when I think of the lyrics I feel I can sing them and represent them for what they are.»

This couple of songs describe why she keeps making music, because,  according to Aurora, «music can save the world and I want to be part of that.» «I think it is something that keeps me excited, one day I make perfect music that is imperfect, but tough, and that is why it is perfect.»

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I keep the light on, it keeps me warm

I hate it when I fall for your illusion of love

I knew, this is not love

A dangerous thing is so beautiful, the bridge is my fav part!

WIP!!

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wednesday (2022- ) costume design by colleen atwood

enid sinclair’s looks

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You’re beautiful…

Part 2

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YA books: There are 2 boys, the protagonist girl HAS to date one, but how can she choose? They are so incredibly different in every way!

The boys:

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Whisper of the Heart is my favorite movie and I love seeing other people appreciate it! It reminds me of a quote from Hayao Miyazaki, "I've become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and a girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live. If I'm able to then perhaps I'll be closer to portraying a true expression of love."

Hey, first THANK YOU SO MUCH for sending me this and for writing your thoughts about this.

The quote which you share I think that's summerizes the whole movie. The whole story is just not about love, it's also about giving each other hope to live, it's about fighting for each other and to live for little things. I personally really enjoy and adore Miyazaki's work. All of his work is just so comforting and soft.

Read this quote somewhere in which he said "I would like to make a film to tell children it's good to be alive." And he really did that. Well, I hope we keep loving or enjoying the things which we love or enjoy to do.

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The real victims are the Port Mafia members who had to work with Dazai and Chuuya on a regular basis. Imagine having to put up with soukoku’s unconventional mating rituals every day. I hope they were at least compensated properly for their efforts lmao.

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“I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” –Vincent Van Gogh 

Fun little fact. It takes anywhere from five to six layers of dye and paint to achieve the star patterns on my adventure gear. ⭐

I’ve been thinking of doing a time capture of the process  if people would be interested in seeing something like that?

Wishing you all a splendid Saturday, and a wonderful weekend. :)

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I wish I could say that Kars playing Lisa Lisa’s legs like a guitar as she bleeds out is the weirdest thing in this episode.

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LMAO I LOVE THESE

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Me when my fp cancles our plans because they're sick and we're in a pandemic

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So a lot of people read that final dinner scene as Jinx wanting Vi to love her for who she is now, for Jinx, not just Powder, and when she sees Vi can't do that, she turns her back on her. But I think that misses an important dimension. Jinx's only model of what unconditional love looks like is Silco, and he doesn't just love her, he enables her worst impulses and behaviors. Vi is absolutely capable of loving Jinx, bloody hands, short fuse, hallucinations, and all, but she will never enable her. And because of that, Jinx can't see that Vi cares about her as more than the scared ten-year old girl she used to be.

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Sevika the Snitch Part 2

Bonus:

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I finally drew the science bros!! Viktor is a year older than Jinx in this AU for reasons. They also met through Singed (the doctor) and remained friends even after Viktor got taken in by Heimerdinger.

(I initially had to chose between Ekko and Viktor and ended up with Viktor because he doesn’t really care that her dad’s Silco, just as long as she was safe and that he had someone to trust with his life at every turn. Plus, imagine if these two were legit partners in Arcane. They would’ve made life better for both Zaun and Piltover.)

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jinx appreciation post bc i love her

BONUS: jayce and viktor

arcane text posts: part 1

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I’m rewatching parks and rec and this scene reminded me of them